This note describes the lottery - and insurance-market equilibrium in an economy with non-convex straight-time and overtime employment. In contrast to Hansen and Sargent (1988), the overtime-decision is a sequential one. This requires two separate insurance market to operate, one for...

This paper analyzes some of the elements of the new economy. What is really new is first of all the technological innovation. In economic terms what is new is a new product. The new IT product brought about by the new technology means two different things: a new device to handle data and to...

This note explores the problem of aggregation with non-convex labor supply decisions in an economy with both straight time and overtime. In contrast to Hansen and Sargent (1988), the paper models this as a sequential decision. Instead of changing from one to infinity, with a sequential...

This note describes the lottery- and insurance-market equilibrium in an economy with non-convex straight-time and overtime employment. In contrast to Hansen and Sargent (1988), the overtime-decision is a sequential one. This requires two separate insurance market to operate, one for...

Deutschlands Arbeitslosenquoten sind bis 2005 mit jeder Rezession sprunghaft angestiegen. Das wird von neoklassischen Mikroökonomen als Funktionsstörung des Arbeitsmarktes interpretiert, was zur Ausblendung makroökonomischer Zusammenhänge und zur Verengung der Debatte auf...

Deutschlands Arbeitslosenquoten sind bis 2005 mit jeder Rezession sprunghaft angestiegen. Das wird von neoklassischen Mikroökonomen als Funktionsstörung des Arbeitsmarktes interpretiert, was zur Ausblendung makroökonomischer Zusammenhänge und zur Verengung der Debatte auf...

For those who monitor relative wealth accumulation and are unmoved by divine empathy, a disincentive to increase the rate of full manumission is possible. Consider slavery as overt, formal constraints to zero or even negative wealth accumulation; and consider freedom of ex-slaves as the...

Although employee-representation systems coexist with a collective-bargaining framework in continental Europe for many years, US labor advocates have looked upon those representations systems with suspicion. The reasons for this suspicion are historical: US employee-representation systems have...

Somebody must step up. Somebody must call out the stabilization irrelevance of the American Economic Association's signature macro journal, American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics. The on-going failure of the nine-year-old journal is most egregiously illustrated by its treatment of the Great...

We study labour-income and consumption taxation in an overlapping-generations model featuring endogenous growth due to inter-firm investment externalities. Consumption, saving, and labour supply display life-cycle features because mortality and labour productivity are age dependent and because...